Playing nature : ecology in video games / Alenda Y. Chang.

Main entry:

Chang, Alenda Y., author.

Title & Author:

Playing nature : ecology in video games / Alenda Y. Chang.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

294 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Series:

Electronic mediations ; 58

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
(from table of contents) Introduction : Edge effects -- Mesocosm -- Scale -- Nonhuman -- Entropy -- Collapse -- Gameography.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.

Summary:

"Video games may be fun and immersive diversions from daily life, but can they go beyond the realm of entertainment to do something serious--like help us save the planet? As one of the signature issues of the twenty-first century, ecological deterioration is seemingly everywhere, but it is rarely considered via the realm of interactive digital play. In Playing Nature, Alenda Y. Chang offers groundbreaking methods for exploring this vital overlap. Arguing that games need to be understood as part of a cultural response to the growing ecological crisis, she seeds conversations around key environmental science concepts and suggests several ways to rethink existing game taxonomies and theories of agency while revealing surprising fundamental similarities between game play and scientific work." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

9781517906313 hardcover alkaline paper
1517906318 hardcover alkaline paper
9781517906320 paperback alkaline paper
1517906326 paperback alkaline paper
electronic book
9781452962269

Subject:

Ecology in video games.
Video games Environmental aspects.
Video games Sociological aspects.
Nature in popular culture.
Jeux vidéo Aspect de l'environnement.
Jeux vidéo Aspect sociologique.
Nature dans la culture populaire.

Added entries:

Electronic mediations ; v. 58.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307678
Call No.: BIB 253151
Status: Available

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